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Even as New Delhi embarrasses itself by making baseless claims about alleged Pakistani participation in the Taliban’s push to take Panjshir and, with it, complete control of all of Afghanistan, Islamabad is doing the right thing by talking about facts, figures, and on-ground reality and continuing to expose India’s barbarity in Occupied Kashmir. In yet […]

Not long ago the central bank won great praise for achieving complete sovereignty in its operations and letting the rupee float freely in the currency market. But since then it has done practically nothing even as the currency collapsed and investor confidence sagged, to the point that now businesses are openly asking for some sort […]

There can be no bigger indictment of America’s so-called war against terrorism than the fact that it proved to be the single biggest trigger for the largest, most extreme spread of terrorism across the world in its known history. And, of course, what could be more embarrassing for Washington that it ended with the Taliban […]

Once again it took barely half a day’s rain to completely paralyse almost all of Lahore city. And it’s not as if Friday’s shower was a heavy downpour. It did go on more or less all day, but the city administration had broken down while it was still a drizzle that lasted a couple of […]

Nobody will argue with Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, except perhaps some of his own cabinet colleagues, that food inflation is a “major challenge” yet he would find few people who would share his optimism that “every possible effort” is being made to tackle this problem and that the government would be able to control it. […]

It is no surprise at all that India turned out to be behind the cyber attack on the FBR (Federal Board of Revenue) website a few weeks ago. Pakistani authorities expected their investigation to divulge just such information; just like everybody here was convinced that India would go the extra mile, including spewing lies through […]

The Pakistani government has fulfilled yet another requirement of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) by providing a list of terrorist entities and individuals, including those proscribed by the UN Security Council, to estate agents. In this way the government has made it impossible for all banned terrorist organisations as well as their representatives to […]

The new Punjab police IG is certainly starting his stint by saying all the right things. The police force should not become the hand of the oppressor, instead it should become the hand of the oppressed, he said upon taking command. He also said that the best way of solving people’s problems at their doorsteps […]

The latest shakeup in Punjab means the province now has its seventh police chief and fifth chief secretary in just a little over three years, which is astonishing because it’s left the public puzzled and the senior bureaucracy paralysed. It is because of this game of musical chairs that senior officers in the province have, […]

After raising hopes all around of a well-rounded, well-represented cabinet in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s first few announcements regarding key government positions, like prime minister, foreign minister, interior minister, etc, have been something of a letdown so far. The Taliban’s own old guard, comprising mostly of its oldest, fiercest members, has been accommodated before anybody else […]